state

State

As a noun, a people permanently occupying a fixed territory bound together by common habits and custom into one body politic exercising, through the medium of an organized government, independent sovereignty and control over all persons and things within its boundaries, capable of making war and peace and of entering into international relations with other states. The section of territory occupied by one of the United States. The people of a state, in their collective capacity, considered as the party wronged by a criminal deed; the public; as in the title of a case, "The State v. A. B." The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at a given time.

As a verb, to express the particulars of a thing in writing or in words; to set down or set forth in detail; to aver, allege, or declare. To set down in gross; to mention in general terms, or by way of reference; to refer.

state

n. 1) the Federal or state government and any of its departments, agencies or components (such as a city, county, or board). 2) any of the 50 states comprising the United States. 3) a nation's government.

STATE, government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged
sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one
community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to
foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one
body politic; (q.v.) and the state, and the people of the state, are
equivalent expressions. 1 Pet. Cond. Rep. 37 to 39; 3 Dall. 93; 2 Dall. 425;
2 Wilson's Lect. 120; Dane's Appx. Sec. 50, p. 63 1 Story, Const. Sec. 361.
In a more limited sense, the word `state' expresses merely the positive or
actual organization of the legislative, or judicial powers; thus the actual
government of the state is designated by the name of the state; hence the
expression, the state has passed such a law, or prohibited such an act.
State also means the section of territory occupied by a state, as the state
of Pennsylvania.
2. By the word state is also meant, more particularly, one of the
commonwealths which form the United States of America. The constitution of
the United States makes the following provisions in relation to the states.
3. Art. 1, s. 9, Sec. 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles
exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of
commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another, nor
shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay
duties in another.
4.-Sec. 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the
receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time
to time.
5.-Sec. 7. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States,
and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall,
without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, office,
or title of any kind whatever, from, any king, prince, or foreign state.
6.-Art. 1, s. 10, Sec. 1. No state shall enter into any treaty,
alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin
money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender
in payments of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex-post-facto, or law
impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
7.-Sec. 2. No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any
imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely
necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all
duties and imposts laid by any state on imports or exports shall be for the
use of the treasury of the United States, and all such laws shall be subject
to the revision and control of congress. No state, shall, without the
consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in
time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or
with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such
imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
8. The district of Columbia and the territorial districts of the United
States, are not states within the meaning of the constitution and of the
judiciary act, so as to enable a citizen thereof to sue a citizen of one of
the states in the federal courts. 2 Cranch, 445; 1 Wheat. 91.
9. The several states composing the United States are sovereign and
independent, in all things not surrendered to the national government by the
constitution, and are considered, on general principles, by each other as
foreign states, yet their mutual relations are rather those of domestic
independence, than of foreign alienation. 7 Cranch, 481; 3 Wheat. 324; 1
Greenl. Ev. Sec. 489, 504. Vide, generally, Mr. Madison's report in the
legislature of Virginia, January, 1800; 1 Story's Com. on Const. Sec. 208; 1
Kent, Com. 189, note b; Grotius, B. 1, c. 1, s. 14; Id. B. 3, c. 3, s. 2;
Burlamaqui, vol. 2, pt. 1, c. 4, s. 9; Vattel, B. 1, c. 1; 1 Toull. n. 202,
note 1 Nation; Cicer. de Repub. 1. 1, s. 25.

STATE, condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we
inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status,
which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio,
which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfill the
obligations which are imposed upon him.
2. State is that quality which belongs to a person in society, and
which secures to, and imposes upon him different rights and duties in
consequence of the difference of that quality.
3. Although all men come from the hands of nature upon an equality, yet
there are among them marked differences. It is from nature that come the
distinctions of the sexes, fathers and children, of age and youth, &c.
4. The civil or municipal laws of each people, have added to these
natural qualities, distinctions which are purely civil and arbitrary,
founded on the manners of the people, or in the will of the legislature.
Such are the differences, which these laws have established between citizens
and aliens, between magistrates and subjects, and between freemen and
slaves; and those which exist in some countries between nobles and
plebeians, which differences are either unknown or contrary to natural law.
5. Although these latter distinctions are more particularly subject to
the civil or municipal law, because to it they owe their origin, it
nevertheless extends its authority over the natural qualities, not to
destroy or to weaken them, but to confirm them and to render them more
inviolable by positive rules and by certain maxims. This union of the civil
or municipal and natural law, form among men a third species of differences
which may be called mixed, because they participate of both, and derive
their principles from nature and the perfection of the law; for example,
infancy or the privileges which belong to it, have their foundation in
natural law; but the age and the term of these prerogatives are determined
by the civil or municipal law.
6. Three sorts of different qualities which form the state or condition
of men may then be distinguished: those which are purely natural, those
purely civil, and those which are composed of the natural and civil or
municipal law. Vide 3 Bl. Com. 396; 1 Toull. n. 170, 171; Civil State.

TO STATE. To make known specifically; to explain particularly; as, to state
an account, or to show the different items of an account; to state the cause
of action in a declaration.

Aside from refugees and stateless persons, DOLE also maintained the AEP exemption of the following categories of foreigners: all members of the diplomatic service and foreign government officials accredited by and with reciprocity arrangement with the Philippine government; offices and staff of international organization of which the Philippine government is a member, and their legitimate spouses desiring to work in the Philippines; owners and representatives of foreign principals whose companies are accredited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), who come in the Philippines for a limited period and solely for the purpose of interviewing applicants for employment abroad.

The report is based on consultations conducted in May and June 2017 with members of stateless, formerly stateless or at risk minority groups in Madagascar, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kenya, which were selected as examples to highlight the issues faced by stateless minorities worldwide.

Joreige said that the problem of stateless children is becoming more complicated with time amid the absence of a national vision for resolving the matter, "especially given that the number of stateless children has exceeded 100,000.

in these seven countries described themselves as "invisible," "alien," "living in a shadow," "like a street dog" and "worthless" -- underscoring the psychological toll of being stateless and of being denied the rights most citizens enjoy.

Speakers noted that although there are known cases of stateless persons in Cyprus, through complaints reaching the Ombudswoman or other authorities, the state sector is not aware of their total number.

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